In NSW, they would have shot him dead. The reason is because, I believe, (a) a culture of cowardice; and (b) poor firearms standards.

NSW Police are essentially young people handed a weapon that they carry loaded with minimal training and supervision.

Such a person would not be and is not encouraged to aim at the thigh but at the centre of mass.

In the Finnish case, the suspect is still alive. This means he can assist police, perhaps unwillingly, perhaps unwittingly, with their investigations. It means he is not a martyr. It means he has years to reflect on what he has done and perhaps repent, which is not only humane, but serves the cause of the Enlightenment, including against obscurantist ideologies such as Islam.

While killing is sometimes inevitable, either because of the danger of the situation or because of the inherent difficulties that are necessarily a part of exercising violence, we win when we don't shoot to kill.

19 August 2017

Bollards

Bollards are a cheap, simple and effective defence against attacks using vehicles, currently all the rage amongst Islamic terrorists in the West.Bollards would have prevented most the of the deaths and injuries in the Parliament House attack in London. Sadly, the fashion for vehicle attacks was well known by that stage but the authorities in London had done nothing about that obvious target.Here we see the effectiveness of barriers in one of two attacks, the Cambrils attack:

While details remain sketchy, it seems the Cambrils van overturned after hitting bollards or security barricades, at which point the occupants piled out and began shooting.

Source: The New DailyCould Barcelona have been minimised using bollards?